Editorial Council Resolution 0009: Recipes subpage and usage

[Martin Baldwin-Edwards]

The period for open comments will start from Wednesday, 7 May, 22.00 UTC and will end on Friday, 16 May, 19.00 UTC.

The text of the resolution can be found at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Editorial_Council_Resolution_0009

[David Goodman]

thee is one problem, but it's a bid one: there is not Foods editor yet.  Therefore, we have no way to verify that the recipe is good. Nor can we copy from a good source--pre 1923 sources are of historical interest only. For later ones, though a list of ingredients from a label is not copyright protected,   a recipe is.
Although this is a subpage , its not the place to make experiments in lowering the principle of   approval of content.
True, we have very few approved articles yet, but this is the basic principle defining citizendium.

[Hayford Peirce]

David, surely we have had this same discussion over and over in other places! Recipes are not, repeat, not copy-protected!

True, the exact wording in the specific directions of a recipe in a book by, say, Julia Child, is protected. But the list of ingredients and how they are put together are absolutely not protected. This is as clear a fact as that the sun rises in the East. I can take all 50 ingredients from a Julia article and as long as I rewrite the instructions on how to use them, then I have every right to do so.  And to publish this recipe in my own copyrighted book, "The Collected Recipes of Hayford Peirce". And you then have the right to do the exact same thing with any given recipe from my book.

I don't understand why you keep raising this point again and again....